Things in Perl I'm thankful for,
Moose: finally an Object Oriented framework I don't mind using.
Catalyst: An web development framework that doesn't annoy me.
Chicago.pm: Finally get to meet some other perl folks I'm no longer an
island :-)
On 11/22/07, Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:
>> From http://perlbuzz.com/2007/11/perl-gratitude-2007.html>> Here in the US, it's Thanksgiving, a day of eating lots of food,
> watching football, and sometimes, just sometimes, expressing
> gratitude
> and giving thanks for those things that make life wonderful.
>> Here are the things I'm grateful for in late 2007, in no particular
> order after the first.
>> Google Code
>> [5]Google's project hosting service has been a godsend. It's changed
> the way I do open source projects. It has leapfrogged SourceForge
> for
> ease of maintenance, and the bug tracker trumps [6]RT for CPAN that
> we've been using for so long. Add that to the integration with
> Google
> Groups which makes it trivial to create mailing lists, and it's at
> the
> tops of my list for 2007. I can't say enough good about it.
>> The readers of Perlbuzz
>> Eleven weeks ago, Skud and I started this little website called
> [7]Perlbuzz as an alternative to the "more traditional outlets" for
> news in the Perl world. The response has been tremendous. We get 600
> RSS readers every day, and have had over 10,000 unique visitors in
> that
> time. It makes me happy that our little venture is used and
> appreciated
> by the community.
>> Test::Harness 3.0
>> It's been over a year in the making, but the new version of [8]the
> crucial Test::Harness 3.0 means more flexibility for module authors,
> and lots of UI improvements for people who just want to run prove
> and
> make test.
>> Mark Dominus
>> MJD is so much a fixture in Perl it's easy to forget that he's
> there.
> For 2007, though, never mind all the things he's done for Perl in
> the
> past, or the hours I've spent being enthralled in talks of his. His
> [9]Universe Of Discourse blog is the single most intelligent blog
> out
> there, and sometimes it just happens to be about Perl.
>> Andy Armstrong
>> Was Andy Armstrong always around, or did I just not notice? His time
> and dedication spent on climbing on board with Ovid and Schwern
> and the
> rest of the Test::Harness 3.0 crew has been invaluable in getting it
> out. Plus, he's a really swell guy anyway.
>> Dave Hoover
>> When I finally despaired of the amount of time and frustration it
> took
> to organize content for [10]Chicago.pm's Wheaton meetings, Dave
> Hoover
> stepped up and volunteered to take it over. I'm thankful, but not as
> much as I hope the other Chicago.pm folks are.
>> Perl::Critic
>> I'm all about having the machine keep an eye out for the stupid
> things
> we do, and the goodness of [11]Perl::Critic is always impressive.
> You
> won't like everything Perl::Critic says about your code, but
> that's OK.
> It's an entire framework for enforcing good Perl coding practices.
>> The Perl Community in general
>> The Perl community is populated by some tremendous folks. Some names
> are more known than others, but these people help make daily Perl
> life
> better for me. In no particular order, I want to single out Pete
> Krawczyk, Kent Cowgill, Elliot Shank, Liz Cortell, Jason Crome,
> Yaakov
> Sloman, Michael Schwern, Andy Armstrong, Ricardo Signes, Julian
> Cash,
> Jim Thomason, chromatic, Chris Dolan, Adam Kennedy, Josh McAdams
> and of
> course Kirrily Robert. If you think you should be on this list,
> you're
> probably right, and I just forgot.
>> My wife, Amy Lester
>> Because even if she doesn't understand this part of my life, she at
> least understands its importance to me.
> __________________________________________________________________
>> I'd love to hear back from any readers about what they're thankful
> for.
> I'm thinking about having a regular Perlbuzz "Love Letters to Perl"
> column where people write about what they love in Perl.
>> 5. http://code.google.com/hosting/> 6. http://rt.cpan.org/> 7. http://perlbuzz.com/> 8. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Harness/> 9. http://blog.plover.com/> 10. http://chicago.pm.org/> 11. http://perlcritic.tigris.org/>> xoxo,
> Andy
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